Clear your calendar - It's going down! Quote Blocks kicks off on April 26th, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Join us for a day of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

PRESIDENT / CEO

R. Harrison

Splashthat.com

R. Harrison

CEO Barkbook

1pm

Schedule Item #1

Clear your calendar - It's going down! Bedford V2 kicks off on April 20th, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

1pm

Schedule Item #1

Clear your calendar - It's going down! Bedford V2 kicks off on April 20th, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

At our Demo Day, the winning three teams will present their solutions and the progress they've made since the hackathon!

Legal Services For All

At least 80 percent of the legal needs of the poor and two-thirds of the legal needs of middle income Americans are not met. Seattle University's Social Justice Hackathon will unite the legal and tech communities to create innovative solutions to American access to justice.

We're looking for projects that seek to eliminate the gap between those who need civil legal services and those who provide legal resources. Participants include developers, designers, lawyers, law students, business developers, "idea people", or anything in-between!

Teams can work on a project of their own interest or select from any number of problems suggested by our community partners. Ideas of all sorts are accepted, from Web and Mobile Apps to Wearables and Algorithms.

Continue hacking on projects and schedule session to meet with mentors to get assistance on projects.

400pm

Presentation Prep

Final hours of worktime should be focused on perfecting your presentation, finalizing demo, tech-check for final presentations also takes place

600pm

Final Presentations

﻿Sponsor Remarks then Hackathon teams present their social justice solutions.

700pm

Dinner and Keynote Speaker

Eat food, and listen to final remarks

Marty Smith, CEO of MetaJure "Lawyers and Innovation — Are We Mistakenly Waiting for Einstein?”

800pm

Judging and Awards

Judges deliberate and announce winners

820pm

Wrap Up and Go Home!

Thank all of the sponsors, speakers, judges, participants and community partners

SPEAKERS

Opening RemarksHon. Donald J Horowitz

Donald Horowitz received his L.L.B. from Yale Law School, was a law clerk for a Justice of the Washington State Supreme Court. He has been a Senior Assistant Attorney General, the first Chief Counsel for the State Department of Social and Health Services. He is a former King County Superior Court Judge.

Beginning in 2001, Mr. Horowitz chaired a State Access to Justice Committee which resulted in the Washington Supreme Court becoming the first court to adopt Access to Justice Technology Principles to guide the use of technology in the justice system to assure that use of technology doesn’t perpetuate or add barriers to access and use of the justice system, but eliminates existing barriers and creates opportunities for better access and delivery of quality justice for all. He has since been a leader in the effort to transform those principles into practical daily reality in the lives of all people

He is on the Senior Advisory Board of the University of Washington Information School.

In 2010 Donald Horowitz was awarded the highest honor of the Washington State Bar Association, its Award of Merit. He has recently been awarded the 2016 Charles A. Goldmark Distinguished Service Award, the highest award in Washington State for service to enhance the quality and equality of justice for all.

Keynote AddressMarty Smith

Marty Smith is a Founding Director of MetaJure, Inc., a legal technology company. Marty practiced for 25 years with the law firm of Preston Gates & Ellis (now KL Gates), retiring from Preston in December of 2006.

Marty is included in The Best Lawyers in America, International Who’s Who of E-Commerce Lawyers and Washington Law & Politics Super Lawyers. Marty is also the recipient of the 2007 Sharon Nelson Leadership Award from the Shidler Center for Law, Commerce and Technology at the University of Washington.

Marty was the Chair of Washington State Governor Gary Locke’s Digital Education Task Force and the Chair of the Washington Digital Learning Commons.

Intersession RemarksProfessor Milan Markovic

Milan Markovic is an Associate Professor of Law at the Texas A&M University School of Law, where he teaches professional responsibility, business associations, and international business transactions.

Professor Markovic's recent research has focused on lawyers’ involvement in the financial crisis and the causes of lack of access to justice. He is also the principal investigator of the Texas Lawyers Study, which examines the incomes and career satisfaction of members of the state bar of texas.

Professor Markovic’s scholarship has appeared in such publications as the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Texas International Law Journal, and Utah Law Review. Prior to joining the academy, Professor Markovic practiced law with Sidley Austin LLP and Baker Hostetler LLP in New York City and clerked for the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands.

JUDGES

Brian HoweCEO of Impact Hub

Brain is the CEO of Impact HUB Seattle. Brian has devoted his career to bringing people together to turn ideas into reality and to encourage entrepreneurship that benefits the community.

Attorney at times (Vox Legal; Apex Law Group)-professor at times-partner at VentureScale.co-EIR at UW. Brian is also a proud alum of Seattle Univeristy School of Law.

William CovingtonProfessor at UW Law

Professor Covington joined the UW law school faculty in 2003 as an Assistant Professor and Director of the Technology Law and Public Policy Clinic. Prior to his selection as clinic director, Professor Covington was a principal at the North Star Group consulting firm where he worked with municipalities on land use legislation, infrastructure development, and taxation policies applicable to high tech businesses.

Ten years of service with McCaw Cellular Communications (now Cingular) and previous work as regulatory counsel for Group W Cable (now Comcast) provided him with a wealth of in-depth experience in the field of telecommunications law and policy.

Aurora MartinDirector of Columbia Legal Services

Aurora is the Director of CLS. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Washington. She began as an intern in 1995 with the Refugee Clinic of Evergreen Legal Services, CLS's predecessor organization.

Since joining CLS, she has served as a National Equal Justice Works Fellow focused on housing and expanded leadership development efforts and access to justice issues.

Mentors/Coaches

﻿Mentors/coaches

David Harris

City of Seattle - Start Up Advocate

Candace Farber

WHOA Strategies - Civic Entrepreneur

Chip Phillips

Columbia Legal Services - IT Manager

Dan Lear

Avvo - Director of Industry Relations

Liz Allen

Attorney

Carly Slater

CEO - Tour de Force LLC

Jordan Couch

Attorney

Organizers

Miguel Willis

Student At Seattle University School Of Law, Founder Of CaseBooker, LLC | President, SU BLSA

Diana Singleton

Director Of Seattle University School Of Law Access To Justice Institue